That’s a start, you’ve backed away from the regular use strawman.
Frankly, who’s to say the police havn’t already used it. It wouldn’t surprise me, and it may well have saved lives. And so-called “waterboarding” used under supervised conditions has harmed no one that I’m aware of, much less kill anyone.
Would you use it to save the life of your wife, your child, 100’s of people you don’t know? Where do you draw the line. Where do you expect the police to draw the line. Would you impose more restraint on them than you would impose on yourself.
Yes, because of their positions of authority, representing the government (and the Law) they should be held to a higher standard than the average Citizen.
But he that knew not and committed things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
— Jesus, in Luke 12:48
Where do you expect the police to draw the line.
I think that they should be constrained by the lines drawn by the Constitutions of their States; most all of which explicitly cite the federal Constitution as binding law.
Would you use it to save the life of your wife, your child, 100’s of people you don’t know? Where do you draw the line.
I honestly don't know.